Books with title Time Hackers, The

10-year-old computer geek Elizabeth Gale Callahan is fully in control of her nice, tidy, life. Fully, thank you. Until...the Scarecrow and Scraps appear in her bedroom and refuse to go back home-to Oz. The Scarecrow looked solemnly at Elizabeth. "You see, little girl, mistakes might have been made. When a witch is destroyed, that energy sometimes doesn't go away. Like Einstein said, it's sometimes...transformed." "You mean it goes somewhere else?" said Elizabeth. The Scarecrow nodded. "Somewhere like here?" said Elizabeth. The Scarecrow nodded again. Hackers of Oz is a gift for mothers and daughters, a valentine to the city of Chicago, and a celebration of all of us who wore ruby slippers or a pointy black hat on Halloween! Tom Mula has been an award-winning Chicago actor, director, and playwright for far, far, far too long. Audiences have tolerated his performances in a good deal of Shakespeare, as Koko in Hot Mikado, and in solo turns in The Circus of Dr. Lao and Jacob Marley's Christmas Carol. Tom also spent seven grueling seasons at the Goodman Theatre playing Scrooge. Mula's plays include Almighty Bob, The Golem, Nicole Hollander's Sylvia's Real Good Advice, and adaptations of John Gardner's In the Suicide Mountains and Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. In 1995, Adams Media published Tom's book Jacob Marley's Christmas Carol; it was a Chicago Tribune bestseller. The award-winning play version has had hundreds of productions worldwide. Tom spends most of his summers acting and directing at Peninsula Players in Door County, Wisconsin. He teaches in the Theatre Department at Columbia College Chicago. Tom Mula is a lucky, lucky man. He may be reached at tommula.com.

Ever open your locker and find that some joker has left something really weird inside? Seventh grader Dorso Clayman opens his and finds a dead body. Thirty seconds later, it disappears. It’s not the first bizarre thing that has appeared in his locker and then vanished. The ultimate gamesters have decided to make Dorso and his buddy Frank the target of some strange techno-practical jokes. They’ve hacked into the time line, and things from the past keep appearing in the present. Soon, the pranks aren’t funny anymore – they’re dangerous. Dorso and Frank have got to beat the time hackers at their own game and break the code, before they get lost in the past themselves. Gary Paulsen takes listeners on a wild ride through time in this hilarious adventure.